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This book explores the problem of time and immanence for phenomenology in the work of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jacques Derrida. Detailed readings of immanence in light of the more familiar problems of time-consciousness and temporality provide the framework for evaluating both Husserl's efforts to break free of modern philosophy's notions of immanence, and the influence Heidegger's criticism of Husserl exercised over Merleau-Ponty's and Derrida's alternatives to Husserl's phenomenology. Ultimately exploring various notions of intentionality, these in-depth analyses of immanence and temporality suggest a new perspective on themes central to phenomenology's development as a movement and raise for debate the question of where phenomenology begins and ends.

Michael R. Kelly is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at The University of San Diego, USA. He is editor ofBergson and Phenomenology(2010), and has published articles on the topic of time and time-consciousness in theJournal of the British Society for PhenomenologyandAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.

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Table of Contents

Preface. Introduction: New Beginnings. Part I: Phenomenology and the Problem of Time. 1. Time, Intentionality, and Immanence in Modern Subject Idealism. 2. The Imperfection of Immanence in Husserl's Phenomenology. 3. The Living-Present: Absolute time-consciousness and Genuine Phenomenological Immanence. Part II: The Problem of Time and Phenomenology. 4. Transcendence: Heidegger and The Turn, the open, 'The finitude of being ... first spoken of in the book on Kant'. 5. The Truly Transcendental: Merleau-Ponty,un Écart, 'The Acceptance of the Truth of the Transcendental Analysis'. Conclusion: The Ultratranscendental: Derrida and Phenomenology 'Tormented, if not contested, from within'

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This book explores the problem of time and immanence for phenomenology in the work of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jacques Derrida. Detailed readings of immanence in light of the more familiar problems of time-consciousness and temporality provide the framework for evaluating both Husserl's efforts to break free of modern philosophy's notions of immanence, and the influence Heidegger's criticism of Husserl exercised over Merleau-Ponty's and Derrida's alternatives to Husserl's phenomenology. Ultimately exploring various notions of intentionality, these in-depth analyses of immanence and temporality suggest a new perspective on themes central to phenomenology's development as a movement and raise for debate the question of where phenomenology begins and ends."I have personally been waiting for this book for some time, and it has been worth the wait. Written with lucidity on arguably the most difficult and central of phenomenological problems - time - Kelly's book is a tour de force, shedding new light on all of the thinkers it engages with." (Jack Reynolds, Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean, Deakin University, Australia)